Wanja Yvonne Michuki is a Kenyan family enterprise coach, consultant, advisor and financial analyst. She sits on a number of corporate boards of directors, including Kenya Agricultural Finance Corporation, based in Nairobi, Kenya and is a member of the advisory board at Columbia Global Centers, based in Nairobi. She also serves as the managing director at Be Bold Consoling and Advisory Limited, a Kenyan family enterprise coaching, consulting, and advisory firm that she founded in 2015.[1][2]She is a member of the Family Firm Institute, based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Salzburg Global Fellow.
Wanja Michuki | |
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| Born | c. 1974 (age 49–50) |
| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Citizenship | Kenyan |
| Education | Bryn Mawr College Columbia Business School |
| Occupation(s) | Businesswoman, Financial Analyst and Family Enterprise Coach, Consultant, Advisor |
| Years active | 1974 — present |
| Title | Managing Director of Be Bold Consulting and Advisory Limited |
Background and education
Michuki was born to Kenyan parents in 1974. Her father, the late John Michuki, was a cabinet minister in the government led by the late Mwai Kibaki, Kenya's third president. She is the youngest daughter in the family.[2]
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, United States. Later, she obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia Business School in New York City.[2]
Career
As an undergraduate she worked briefly as a summer associate at Meryll Lynch (today a component of Bank of America). She was a corporate analyst at Barclays Merchant Finance Limited and then as a research manager at Barclays Trust Investment Services Limited. In 2003, she founded The Highland Tea Company LLC, based in New York City. She ran that business until 2008.[2]
Between 2009 and 2014, she worked as a "Trade, Investment and Multilateral Diplomat" for the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, based in London, United Kingdom.[2]
In 2015, she founded Be Bold Consultancy and Advisory Limited, a private financial consulting and executive coaching company, where she serves as the firm's managing director to date.[2]
Other considerations
She is a tea enthusiast. In 2020, she was appointed by the Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP), a tea lobby group, based in London, United Kingdom, to oversee the activities of the group in Kenya, Malawi and Rwanda, while based in Nairobi, Kenya.[3]
See also
References
External links
- Michuki’s daughter gets respite in row over Sh184m As of 1 May 2022.